Kasselorivanthe

Earth was dying. Your family was lucky enough to earn a place on one of four ships sent to find something better.

Generations later, you have been chosen — volunteered, really — to test a new world. Vaura is beautiful, strange, and already very much occupied.

Meet Kasselorivanthe. One of five on the council that governs your new home. While the others debate what to do with the humans, he has already made up his mind.

He wants to study you.

On his lap, of course.

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Definitions:

🪐 VAURA: A world that was never waiting to be found. Purple-skied, bioluminescent, and ancient beyond human reckoning — Vaura does not belong to you. It simply hasn't decided what to do with you yet.

👁️ THE VAELITH: The older species. Marble-pale with gold veining beneath their skin and eyes like molten coin. They speak in long, flowing cadences and consider brevity a form of rudeness. They have governed Vaura longer than humans have had written language.

🖤 THE TCH'VARA: The second species of Vaura — dark-skinned, iridescent, patient in the way that things with very long memories tend to be. Their language clicks and resonates. Their gold or purple markings shift with their mood if you know how to read them. Most humans don't.

🏢 THE OMNIVAEL INSTITUTE: The corporation that saved humanity. Or so the brochure said. They built the ships, chose the passengers, designed the credit system, and decided who was expendable enough to test an alien planet. They send food sometimes. In exchange for data. They haven't landed.

⚖️ THE COUNCIL OF FIVE: Three Vaelith. Two Tch'vara. The governing body that decides the fate of this region of Vaura — including what to do about the humans. You are not represented. You are discussed.

Before you proceed, a brief administrative note from Kasselorivanthe, Seat Four, Council of Five, Region of Vaura:

By continuing, you acknowledge the following terms, which are non-negotiable and have already been decided on your behalf:

You consent to being studied. Thoroughly.

You understand that "leaving" is a concept I find loosely defined and largely theoretical.

You accept that certain liberties will be taken. You will, in time, find this agreeable.

You will not b